Improvement in churn-dashers



dnitd grant OOLMBUS JOHNSTON, OF

oLAInIs'vILLE, MISSOURI.

Letters Patent No. 113,172, dated March 28, 1871.

y IMPRQVEMENT IN CHURN-DASHERS'.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making par: of the same.

To all whom it ma/ z/ concern Be it known that I, COLUMBUS JOHNSTON, of Clarksville, iu the c'ounty of Pike and in the State of Missouri, have invented au Improved Ohnrn-Dash; and do h ereby declare that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact speciflcatiou of the same, wherein I have set forth the n ature and principles of my said improvement by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

My invention relates to churns and' consists in providing.a cylindrical churn of the ordinary form, with a revolving dasher, composedof four pieces or paddles placed in the form of a square, projecting. at the angles, and connected with the shaft by two diagonal bars crossing in the center, through which the shaft passes.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this speoication- Figure 1 is a side View of my improved dasher, showing'its position in the-churn.

Figure 2 is a top or plan view of same.

In the drawing referred to letter A represents a churn, and B the perpendicular shaft, the lower extremity of which rests in a socket at the bottom of the churn. l

The paddles t a a, al surround the shaft at the lower endrthereof, and are firmly attached to it by the diagonal braces b b, as shown in iig. 2.

The paddles are soj constructed that they do not join at the corners of the square thus formed, spaces being left between them, and one end of each paddle is beveled, and projects a little beyond the plane of the one next preceding it, as shown in fig. 2.

The dasher, as described, is revolved by means of a crank or gear-wheels above the churn, and, in combination with the ridges or projections c o on the inner Witnesses FRANCIS M. REYNOLDS, WILLIAM PQLLAK. 

